Short stem, short seatpost, short crankset, TdF bend bars, & you'll fit on it great.

In a way I'm happy that you got it, in a way very unhappy (yeah I think I really did want it & should have just bought it), but hey I really don't need every bike I take a liking too (no I don't, just have to keep reminding myself).

Would anyone in their right mind ride this (experienced cyclists I mean)?

In Qld, it is illegal to ride something like that, unless you are on private property, there is a certain speed (or power), over which it is not permitted on public streets (bike paths included), I know as I was looking into a 900 watt electric MTB conversion kit, but would only consider it with really good disc brakes, when I discovered it wouldn't be legal on the roads, the idea died.

Illegal as drink driving nationwide Wal. No way that'd fit into the 200/250watt limit for power assist bikes on public roads.I had the misfortune to be passed by one of them on the Dynon Rd path last year. Seems the raucous exhaust is perfectly designed to leave a plume of blue vaporous filth up to head height for at least 500m before it disperses.

Shaun

...whatever the road rules, self-preservation is the absolute priority for a cyclist when mixing it with motorised traffic.London Boy 29/12/2011

I was more considering what would happen in the hands of some teenager, either on a public road, with those brakes, or the legal result of cleaning up an errant pedestrian/cyclist/pram pushing mother/earbud wearing jogger on a shared pathway, you'd never stop in time from 60.

Mulger bill wrote:Illegal as drink driving nationwide Wal. No way that'd fit into the 200/250watt limit for power assist bikes on public roads.

Illegal to ride on public roads or cycleways (shared and otherwise), but unfortunately not illegal to sell.Our politicians do us extremely poor service when they leave loopholes in the law like this - knowing fullwell that they have not given the police the resources to enforce their sham laws.

The sooner they make them illegal to sell, import or distribute, the better.

WombatK

Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us -Jerry Garcia

No need for head work on a Two stroke. The performance on those things is proportional to the taper of the expantion chamber of the pipe to the ratio of the fuel air mixture. A long taper: high end speed! a short fat (usually the pipe of the baseball hat wearing, Meth addicted rider!) all tourque and noise. (SLOW) A competent `C` (4 u Munga) grade rider could wind up a legal 30cc bike kit with a long track 'Taper'-Cone' and get that engine to hold 80Klm's easy, till it blew up as the piston to skirt ratio on all those cheapy motors is thin. Therefore the idiots are generally short lived as their motor wont push them for long.

Nah, these small non 'scavenging ports' dont have the same abillity to be affected by a reed valve induction. Your RD 350 was a ' scavenging port induction' so the amount of 'air , fuel induction could be determined by the 'reed valve strength' And if you remember the profile of your pipe? small away from the head ito a long taper'd cone into a restricted baffle. Thats why it did'nt go anywhere under 4 grnd, lol.